A thin green line of the aurora borealis (northern lights) crosses the top of this photograph, taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station. The moon appears as a white disc just above the aurora. Russia's capital city, Moscow, makes a splash of yellow light and is easily recognised by the radial pattern of its highways.

19 June 2014

A cluster of 37 satellites launched out of an underground silo on a remote Russian military base Thursday, rocketing into orbit on top of a Soviet-era ballistic missile modified to haul spacecraft instead of nuclear bombs.

19 June 2014

A new Envisat AATSR Land Surface Temperature (LST) dataset has been generated and supplied to ESA by the University of Leicester (UOL), UK. The dataset has now been released to the ESA Earth Observation user community.

22 - 24 September 2014

Organisation: MyOcean2

Location: Toulouse, France

Conference Overview:

The conference will cover all scientific areas of operational oceanography as well as its applications (weather, seasonal and climate monitoring, marine resources, marine safety, coastal and marine environment). The conference will be held just before the end of the FP7 funded MyOcean2 project, with the aim of providing a forum for discussion of all scientific matters related to ocean monitoring and forecasting systems, quality control and processing of observations feeding into the assimilation systems, and the use of operational oceanography products for scientific applications.

This database is based on the book of Herbert J. Kramer Observation of the Earth and its Environments and describes over 600 missions in detail. Online updated version of "Earth Observation History of Technical Introduction" available as of January 02, 2017.